Studie II, Nr. 3/2

The composition was provisionally titled Bewegungen (Motions), but the name was later changed to Studie II (Stockhausen 1963, 44). It was commissioned by what was then the NWDR, in whose Studio für elektronische Musik in Cologne the piece was created. The world premiere took place in Cologne on 19 October 1954 in the concert series Musik der Zeit, together with Stockhausen’s Studie I and works by Henri Pousseur, Karel Goeyvaerts, Herbert Eimert, and Paul Gredinger (de) (Morawska-Büngeler 1988, 115).